Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stand for the Union, in Philadelphia, he was invited to speak at the Harvard College Commemoration Exercises in 1864, and this was the second time President Eliot saw him. Here Phillips Brooks poured forth such a flood of joyous, triumphant thanksgiving that not a man who heard him ever forgot him. It was this marvelous speech that led to his being elected to the Board of Overseers when he came to Boston in 1870. He served on this board from 1870-1882, and again from 1883-1889. Among his greatest works while connected, with the University was the harboring...